Reliance Infocomm on Wednesday announced a series of investment plans for West Bengal in the infocom sector, including setting up a solution development and service centre over the next three years.
"We (Reliance Infocomm) have already invested close to Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) in the state but I feel this is not enough and we will set up a solution development and service centre here that would give employment to over 2500 people in the next three years," RIL chairman and managing director Mukesh D Ambani said while inaugurating Infocom-2004 IT seminar organised by the ABP group and National Association of Software and Service Companies.
The company would also set up Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Kolkata, the first of which is already functioning in Gujarat, he said.
"This will help generate employment and provide training to the state's talented youth and equip young men and women with knowledge," Ambani said.
"It (the Institute) will powerfully propel India to global leadership in today's world of information and knowledge," he said.
"All of us are conversant with the image of Mother Durga with ten hands. We also know the concept of 'sahasra bahu', a powerful person with thousand hands," Ambani said.
"Infocomm enables each one of us to enhance our capacity a thousand fold by networking in the real and virtual world. Let us all become 'sahasra bahu' and take India forward to become a global economic power," he added.
Ambani said he was convinced that the state would play a significant role in this historic enterprise.
Ambani said Reliance Infocomm would fulfil the dream of his father, Dhirubahi Ambani, who was very excited about information technology.